Wisconsin Commemorative Half Dollar Reimagined
Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
had to laugh. Being a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan, seeing the redo of the 1936 Wisconsin commemorative half dollar by Steven R. Roe in the March 1963 issue of magazine was worth
